Title: Cover Plus
Artist: Hazel O'Connor
Label: Sfe
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5013929847323
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2017-11-24
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT, EXPANDED VERSION

Digitally remastered and expanded edition. Recording for a second time with the world-renowned producer Tony Visconti, who had also produced her career defining Breaking Glass soundtrack album a year earlier, Hazel O'Connor's 1981 album Cover Plus was an assured development of both her songwriting and her outsider artistry. Released in September 1981, Cover Plus enjoyed a seven week run in the UK Album chart peaking at #32. The album combines selected cover versions with her own heartfelt, often autobiographical original songs; together they deliver a powerful personal manifesto and a singular artistic statement of intent. Cover Plus was a solid assemblage of the then dominant post-punk and new wave aesthetics, a crossover style that Hazel was very much at the forefront of. Her legions of fans, at this time, were drawn from across a wide spectrum including punks, goths and futurists. The album contains three powerful cover versions; the Stranglers' 'Hanging Around', a powerful story-telling song that Hazel imbues with her own invigorating nuances, an inspired and surprising gender switch re-reading of Jim Webb's 'Do What You Gotta Do' and a faithful rendering of Lou Reed's 'Men Of Good Fortune'. This expanded and celebratory reissue comes with a 20-page illustrated lyric booklet including a new and exclusive introduction written by Hazel herself.

Tracks:
1.1 (Cover Plus) We're All Grown Up
1.2 Hanging Around
1.3 Ee-I-Addio
1.4 Not for You
1.5 Hold on
1.6 So You're Born
1.7 Dawn Chorus
1.8 Animal Farm (We Will Be Happy?)
1.9 Runaway
1.10 Do What You Gotta Do
1.11 Men of Good Fortune
1.12 That's Life
1.13 (Cover Plus) We're All Grown Up (7" Edit)
1.14 Ee-I-Addio (Original 1979 Single Version)
1.15 Time Is Free
1.16 White Room
1.17 Dawn Chorus (French Version)
1.18 That's Life (French Version)
1.19 Not for You (German Version)

Hazel O'Connor: Cover Plus - COMPACT DISCS

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